May 15, 2013
The Button Man and the Murder Tree
An all-new Wild Cards story
May 14, 2013
Shall We Gather
When one world brushes another, asking the right question can be magic…
May 8, 2013
Fire Above, Fire Below
The dragon below our city has died. What is to be done?
May 7, 2013
We Have Always Lived On Mars
They've never seen the sky. Or the sun. Or the stars. Or the moons.
If our favorite master of snark— Aubrey Plaza—remade Mary Poppins, we imagine the kids would never get their room clean, but might end up being happier. One thing is for sure, Aubrey Plaza Mary Poppins would never make them meet the “feed the birds,” lady. We saw this over on Next Movie and we loved it.
Your daily collection of offsite links includes a genre favorite in Transformers, a day in the life of Morgan Freeman, and an amazing commercial with two Spocks.
The reveal of the first trailer to the Ender’s Game movie came bundled with a Google+ Hangout and live chat with the movie’s director and screenwriter Gavin Hood, sci-fi screenwriter Roberto Orci, and Ender himself Asa Butterfield. During the half hour the trio revealed a few things about the making of the movie, including what we have all long suspected, that NASA Space Camp prepares you for anything.
Spider-Man looks pretty sad there. Probably because recent set photos reveal that an event will come to pass that fans have been wondering about since a certain character first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man. (No, not a remake of Raimi’s third Spider-Man film.)
Spoilers below for the film and comics, of course.
A giant rumor is floating around that former Doctor Who star David Tennant will lend his voice to Rocket Raccoon in the forthcoming Guardians of the Galaxy movie. We think this sounds great, as Tennant has already been a guardian of the galaxy, and also has a super distinctive voice. And while Rocket Raccoon is general thought to have a cockney accent, we’re sure Tennant can pull it off.
If true, this voice casting could totally take the potential awesomeness of this movie to the next level.
[Rumor via Blastr]
We’d like you to imagine Cumberbatch doing a spoken-word, acapella version of “Me and My Shadow.” And then, halfway through, Alan Rickman comes in to help him with it. Seriously, this is the best idea ever. If you have a better one, we’re listening! (Art by Allegator on deviantArt.)
Your collection of daily offsite links are full of other great ideas, including hipster Mario, Alice Eve’s funny shoes, and more!
TV spots for upcoming movies tend not to have anything that you wouldn’t find in the movie trailers themselves, but every so often an extra half-second or two from the aforementioned TV spots offers up a tantalizing plot point.
This particular spot from Man of Steel gives us a couple extra seconds of Zod’s attack on Metropolis, revealing that he basically tries to Death Star us with his planet-cleaving laser ship. Why? We don’t know. Just like his greasy haircut, details for its purpose are lacking.
In what sounds like something straight from our favorite science fiction, artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg is making DNA-based art! Basically, she’s collecting random DNA from saliva and hairs she finds, then entering the genetic information into a computer and using that information to create a 3-D reconstruction of what that person’s face would look like. How close does she get? Check out the very REAL results below.
It turns out the real identity of the new Star Trek baddie has finally been revealed! The Cumberbatch thing was a ruse! The real person who broke down the wall/messed with Earth was the Kool-Aid man! OH YEAH!
Your daily offsite links contain more revelations and things breaking in through the walls of your mind. Including: big time Doctor Who spoilers, a nudity checklist for Game of Thrones, some comic book Girls crossover and more!
Happy May the 4th, everyone! Remember when you took that first step into a larger world?
Below you’ll find some of the Tor.com staff reminiscing on their most vivid Star Wars-related memories, including schoolboy awkwardness, acid dealers, and things that really should have scared us more than they did.
Share your own memories in the comments!
Director of Jurassic Park 4—Colin Trevorrow—has recently tweeted a photo which confirms what many of us have hoped for! Jurassis Park 4 will really be set on Isla Nublar! Infamously, the two previous sequels to Jurassic Park take place on Isla Sorna, or “Site B.”
There’s no other way to put it: Hold on to your butts!
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has announced that author Steven Gould has been elected the new president of SFWA by a landslide margin, replacing outgoing SFWA president John Scalzi.
Gould joins Rachel Swirsky as the incoming Vice President, Susan Forest as Secretary, Bud Sparhawk as Treasurer, Lee Martindale as South/Central Regional Director, and Tansy Rayner Roberts as Overseas Regional Director.
SFWA’s statement is below.
The first full trailer for the Ender’s Game movie hits the internet next Tuesday, May 7th. (We’ve seen it. WE HAVE OPINIONS.) But you can get a glimpse of it now, courtesy of Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford.
Though the whereabouts of the criminal mastermind known only as The Penguin are unclear, he has not taken responsiblity for the giant rubber duckie which is currently sailing around the world. It showed up in Hong Kong yesterday, and is reported to be the work of an artist named Florentijin Hofman. The duckie (as yet unnamed?) is is 46-feet-tall and 55-feet-long. Also, no word yet if a giant Ernie is lurking somewhere beneath the waves. (Via Inhabitat.)
Your collection of daily offsitle links are like taking a giant bath with monsters and includes more inflatable objects, confirmed mutants, who the REAL Batman is, and more!
If Iron Man were a series of pulp novels, it would look like this! Seriously though, in the alternate universe of these Iron Man pulp novels, we for some reason imagine more nudity? Why is that? (Art via Paolo Rivera)
Your daily collection of offsite links features the beginings of a new Fantastic Four, the invasion of Pacific Rim, one giant Doctor Who spoiler and more!
Peter Venkman was worried about Vigo. Was this dark wizard just missing his kitten? Well, now it seems that problem has been corrected! The kitten is here! Now, the joyfulness can continue!
Your daily collection of offsite links are like a river of slime running through the Internet, but full of things you like! Including, what Ron Moore is up to, Doctor Who craziness and more!
In a press conference in Germany for Star Trek Into Darkness, J.J. Abrams was needled about his involvement in that other space franchise: Star Wars. While he didn’t reveal much (it seems he doesn’t know much) the director of both Star Trek Into Darkness and the forthcoming Star Wars: Episode VII did say John Williams would likely return.
“For ‘Star Wars,’ it’s every early days to know, but I believe that going forward, John Williams will be [scoring] that film...”
Though this isn’t total confirmation, it would make sense for the legendary composer return to a universe he arguably made more famous with his score.
[News via Indiewire]
On Monday, Robert Downey Jr. surprised a theater full of kids by popping up at a special Police Athletic League screening of Iron Man 3. The kids, 39 of whom were being honored for their exceptional help in cleaning up areas in NYC that were ravaged by Hurricane Sandy, were undoubtedly thrilled.
The event was organized by Disney and the New York Daily News. Reporting on the visit, Downey told the kids:
“You’re the future of the nation. I guarantee if you keep doing the right thing, you’re going to be running the joint in a minute."
In the latest clip from Star Trek Into Darkness, we’re introduced to Alice Eve’s “Carol Wallace” who we thought was Carol Marcus, even though she’s assigned by Admiral Marcus, who we’re pretty sure is Robocop Peter Weller.
But the BIG news is how Spock reacts to this new “science officer.” Is the famously implied Kirk/Spock relationship from the original series finding it’s way into the new canon? Watch below and see for yourself.
Is she the Emperor’s hand, or does she just want some black coffee? Mara Janeway might be our favorite mashup yet, if only because we truly love both of the characters so much. (And yesterday was Kate Mulgerw’s birthday!) Plus, Captain Janeway bossing Luke around sounds pretty good to us. Blue milk in your black coffee, m’lady?
Your daily collection of offsite links include real spaceships, Star Wars secrets, and that one thing you didn’t know about The Hunger Games.
(Fan art by Belanna)
The Star Wars Uncut crew recently released a trailer for the forthcoming Empire Strikes Back Uncut film and we can’t wait. Can. Not. Wait.
For those unfamiliar, Uncut re-creates the original Star Wars trilogy by cutting each movie into 15-second clips and allowing well, anyone, the opportunity to film or create their own version of that clip. The enterprising animators, videographers, and puppeteers then turn in their 15-second vignettes and Uncut stitches them back together! They debuted the completed Star Wars Uncut in January 2012 and are only 39 scenes away (almost 10 minutes) from finishing The Empire Strikes Back!
